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[Dovecot] search functionality
by Cor Bosman 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hi all, if I give the following command in test32: A004 UID SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL TEXT {4} Test The response is: * SEARCH A004 OK Search completed. If I say: A004 UID SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL FROM {4} Test The response is: * SEARCH 217 350 A004 OK Search completed. The RFC says that 'TEXT' is supposed to result in a list of messages where the search string is in either the body or the header. Obviously the string is there in this example, else the FROM search wouldnt have given a result. Tracing the process shows that dovecot never actually checks the email messages for the string. It does for a BODY search but not for a TEXT search. Is this on purpose? Cor

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql'
by Alex Low (e-wise) 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hi, I am trying this way(mailinglist), as I cant find good 'support'/howto/tutorials on the website. I am running Fedora Core II, using postfix with mysql, and I want to use dovecot as imap server. Now I installed Dovecot using dag wieers SRPM, I compiled it with mysql, pgsql; %configure \ --with-ssl="openssl" \ --with-ssldir="%{_datadir}/ssl" \ --with-ldap \ --with-pgsql \ --with-mysql \ --with-cyrus-sasl2 \ --with-rawlog %{__make} %{?_smp_mflags} After compiling it, I installed the rpm. No problem at all. I configure the dovecot.conf like this; #auth = plain digest-md5 #auth_methods = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf default_mail_env = maildir:/home/mail/virtual/%d/%n # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). log_path = /tmp/dovecot/log1 # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default info_log_path = /tmp/dovecot/log2 Then I try run it: [root@octa SPECS]# cat /tmp/dovecot/log1 dovecot-auth: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:29 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:29 Error: child 2118 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Aug 04 10:48:29 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe dovecot-auth: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'mysql' dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:39 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:39 Error: child 11137 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe imap-login: Aug 04 11:04:39 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe [root@octalys SPECS]# cat /tmp/dovecot/log2 dovecot: Aug 04 10:48:28 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot: Aug 04 11:04:38 Info: Dovecot starting up [root@octalys SPECS]# Can anyone tell me whats wrong please ? Thank you in advance, Alex

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Courier
by Michael Baird 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hello, I've been testing dovecot, and it appears to be much faster then courier-imap. I am using the latest .99 version, trying to make the transition from courier to dovecot as smooth as possible. We really only use IMAP via squirrelmail, I think I've got that worked out fine, changing a few settings in squirrelmail as the FAQ instructs and migrating the courier subscriptions to .subscriptions. I've noticed the folders .Trash .Sent are no longer subfolders of the INBOX,, and when I create new folders in a Client, it creates .INBOX.foldername, and a .INBOX. I would really like all folders to be subfolders of .INBOX, I've set dovecot up as the following. default_mail_env = maildir:/var/export/%h/.maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%n I've also tried putting the INBOX:/var/export/%h/.maildir in there as well with no luck. I essentially want .INBOX to be .maildir, and any subfolders would be called .Sent or .Trash or whatever, like in courier, is this possible? Regards MIKE

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[Dovecot] Adding mail to dovecot directories
by Chris Dean 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

I run mailagent (which is similar to procmail) to filter all my incoming messages. I would like mailagent to put these messages directly into my dovecot server. What I'm doing right now is to create files (one per message) in the "~/mail/.folder-name/new" directory, or in the case of INBOX, in the "~/.mail/new" directory. I have ~/.mail as my maildir. The files created have MH style names: "1", "2", etc. and the names are often reused throughout the day. That is, the file named "1" might be created dozens of times per day with new contents. Is this the right way? Regards, Chris Dean

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[Dovecot] what is the plan for 1.0?
by Farkas Levente 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

hi, i'm just look trhough the todo file, but it's rather large. i assume only a small part of it will be finished for 1.0. what is the schedule for 1.0? what kind of features will be included in 1.0? what is in 1.1 etc.. it'd be useful to see in the todo file that what features scheduled for which version. yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL CA root certificate
by Mail Admin 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Problem solved. In my case I was using the 0.99.10.x release of dovecot, which does not recognize the ssl_ca_file directive. Upgrading to 1.0-test32 was step one. The next step was finding the right format for DST's root certificate. I think the format that finally worked was the format DST distributes for Apache Raven. Thanks! On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 19:47, Zach Bagnall wrote: > It's probably not a matter of getting dovecot to recognise the > certificate, it'll be getting the MUA to recognise the signer. > > When you get the warning, can you click through to the certificate > details and see what it says? Is it showing the signer as DST? Get DST > to confirm that their CA is recognised and trusted by Outlook Express, > Thunderbird, etc. > > Zach. > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:59:40 -0400, Mail Admin > <postmaster(a)psy.miami.edu> wrote: > > I bought a certificate from Digital Signature Trust which is a well > > known certificate authority. The reason I bought my certificate, was > > so that email clients connecting to my imaps server wouldn't be > > bothered with warnings of unrecognized certificate authority as they > > would see with a self-signed server certificate. However, I haven't > > been able to configure dovecot with my Digital Signature Trust signed > > certificate so that the unrecognized certificate authority warning > > doesn't appear. >

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[Dovecot] [PATCH 0/10] NTLM patchset submission
by Andrey Panin 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Hello all, as I promised some days ago here is NTLM (aka SPA, aka MSN) authentication support patchset. It contains common code in src/lib-ntlm directory, Samba compatible NTLM password scheme and authentication mechanism itself. All patches are against 1.0-test30. Please take a look. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] SSL CA root certificate
by Mail Admin 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

In reading through the mailing list, this question seems to have come up before, but never quite answered. I bought a certificate from Digital Signature Trust which is a well known certificate authority. The reason I bought my certificate, was so that email clients connecting to my imaps server wouldn't be bothered with warnings of unrecognized certificate authority as they would see with a self-signed server certificate. However, I haven't been able to configure dovecot with my Digital Signature Trust signed certificate so that the unrecognized certificate authority warning doesn't appear. I have the root certificate for Digital Signature Trust, but I don't know where to put it so that dovecot will use it. I tried appending the CA root certificate onto my server's certificate file with no success. The answer here is not, load my server's certificate into thunderbird or outlook express, because that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid by purchasing my certificate from a recognized authority. Help. Thanks, Derek

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[Dovecot] Patch: fix $-terminated MCF
by Joshua Goodall 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

p/t_strdup_until wasn't returning a terminated string: Index: src/lib/strfuncs.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/lib/strfuncs.c,v retrieving revision 1.41 diff -u -p -r1.41 strfuncs.c --- src/lib/strfuncs.c 18 Jul 2004 01:44:59 -0000 1.41 +++ src/lib/strfuncs.c 31 Jul 2004 08:43:35 -0000 @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ char *p_strdup_until(pool_t pool, const mem = p_malloc(pool, size + 1); memcpy(mem, start, size); + mem[size] = '\0'; return mem; } Noticed while testing $-terminated modular crypt strings, because I didn't (and still don't) understand the reason for line 65 of password-scheme.c; ... /* stop at next '$' */ p = strchr(p+3, '$'); if (p != NULL) *password = t_strdup_until(*password, p); ... and I have ln -s 'J' /etc/malloc.conf on freebsd 5-current, so malloc'd memory isn't zeroed, causing a segfault. Is there some system that appends dollar signs to MCF formats? The commit message for r1.3 of password-scheme.c doesn't explain. Joshua. -- Joshua Goodall "as modern as tomorrow afternoon" joshua(a)roughtrade.net - FW109

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[Dovecot] Too many open files with test32
by Jens Gutzeit 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

Hi Timo and others, I'm using test32 since today and I'm getting this error once every 2 hours or so: dovecot: Jul 30 20:21:26 Error: IMAP(jens(a)gutzeit.at): open(/var/mail/data/jens/jens(a)gutzeit.at/maildir/.INBOX.Gentoo.Security/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Too many open files dovecot: Jul 30 20:21:26 Error: IMAP(jens(a)gutzeit.at): file maildir-uidlist.c: line 147 (maildir_uidlist_deinit): assertion failed: (!UIDLIST_IS_LOCKED(uidlist)) The problem is not specific to this mailbox. I hadn't this problem with the stable releases and I've also not set any special limits for the dovecot processes. I'm using a grsec pathed kernel (linux 2.6.7), the kern log says: grsec: attempted resource overstep by requesting 1024 for RLIMIT_NOFILE against limit 1024 by /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap[imap:19114] uid/euid:1011/1011 gid/egid:448/448, parent /usr/local/sbin/dovecot[dovecot:7799] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0 Does dovecot really need more then 1024 filedescriptors or is it a bug? If you need more information just ask. best regards, Jens

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